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I recently joined JFCS Staff Attorney and Pro Bono Coordinator John Caviccho in a petition for an Interim Custody Order and permission to seek Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS). The SIJS classification provides abused, abandoned and/or neglected children the ability to legally remain in the US. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status…Read More
Carlos* is an unaccompanied child who came to the U.S. from Honduras. JFCS began providing legal representation to him in December 2021, when he was 17 years old. Even though Carlos was born in Honduras, he did not have a birth certificate or any other documentation to indicate his nationality.…Read More
Katya and Andrii didn’t expect to leave their home and everything they knew behind when their daughter Diana was born a year ago. But when the war broke out in Eastern Ukraine, quickly reaching their home city of Kharkiv, they knew they needed to find a safe place for their…Read More
In a collaboration with the Young Lawyers' Division of the Allegheny Bar Association, JFCS Immigration Legal Services held a Green Card Renewal clinic on Sunday, June 5th from 1 to 3:30pm. Staff and volunteers from JFCS helped low-income legal permanent residents file applications to renew their permanent resident cards. If…Read More